As the emergence of online media allows journalists to utilize a limited vocabulary in packaging detailed information on their websites, the meaning properties of lexical words tend to exhibit different relationships within news stories and opinion articles. This paper evaluates the lexical sense relations in the Nigerian online newspaper Neptune Prime to explain how journalists use a single word to convey multiple meanings in their reportage. The research generated its data from the archival page of the online newspaper to assess the semantic behaviors of lexical items and their individual relations in various contexts within news stories and opinion articles. The findings of the research reveal that the semantic properties of lexical words and their relationships, including polysemy, homonymy, homophony, antonymy, and others, enable online media journalists to manipulate English words effectively. This manipulation not only conveys clear information but also attracts the attention of their audience, encouraging them to engage with the full content of the stories.
| Editor in Chief | |
| Prof. Isa Muhammad Maishanu | Dean, Faculty of Arts and Islamic Studies, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto. |
| Editorial Board | |
| Dr. B. B. Usman | Deputy Dean, Faculty of Arts and Islamic Studies, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto. |
| Pro. Nasiru Ahmad Sokoto | Head,Department of Arabic, UsmanuDanfodiyo University, Sokoto. |
| Dr. S.A. Aboki | Department of Islamic Studies, UsmanuDanfodiyo University,Sokoto |
| Prof. Abubakar A. Muhammad | Head, Department of Modern European Languages & Linguistics,UsmanuDanfodiyo University, Sokoto |
| Dr. Ibrahim Abdullahi S.S | Head, Department of Nigerian Languages, UsmanuDanfodiyo University, Sokoto |
| Dr. Umar Ahmad | Department of Modern European Languages & Linguistics, UsmanuDanfodiyo University, Sokoto (Secretary) |